Article From Chicago tribune 2 October 2007 ATTACK ON USS LIBERTY WAS DELIBERATE. Perhaps the most persuasive suggestion that such transcripts existed comes from the Israelis themselves, in a pair of diplomatic cables sent by the Israeli ambassador in Washington, Avraham Harman, to Foreign Minister Abba Eban in Tel Aviv. Five days after the Liberty attack, Harman cabled Eban that a source the Israelis code-named Hamlet was reporting that the Americans had clear proof that from a certain stage the pilot discovered the identity of the ship and continued the attack anyway. Harman repeated the warning three days later, advising Eban, who is now dead, that the White House was very angry, and that the reason for this is that the Americans probably have findings showing that our pilots indeed knew that the ship was American. According to a memoir by then-CIA director Richard Helms, President Johnsons personal anger was manifest when he discovered the story of the Liberty attack on an inside page of the next days New York Times. Johnson barked that it should have been on the front page! Israeli historian Tom Segev, who mentioned the cables in his recent book 1967, said other cables showed that Harmans source for the second cable was Arthur Goldberg, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The cables, which have been declassified by the Israelis, were obtained from the Israeli State Archive and translated from Hebrew by the Tribune. Oliver Kirby, the NSAs deputy director for operations at the time of the Liberty attack, confirmed the existence of NSA transcripts. chicagotribune/chi-liberty_tuesoct02-story.h…
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